I have a very wierd one going on!
The website is batterycenter com but I have the same problem with another xcart shop I am developing.
If I search 'battery' I get all the products showing (over 200). Now I go to This Page URL and get the URL which is:
http://batterycenter.com/search.php?mode=search&by_title=Y&by_descr=Y&by_sk u=Y&search_in_subcategories=Y...y_shortdescr=Y
Now I want to put this in a link as a shortcut. All seems fine and it works (I have added a small link 'test' in the footer bar.
Next I close all my browser windows (to clear the Session), then open one (Firefox) and go to the website. I click on the link and it shows only 6 results. It shows those results because they are the only ones with 'battery' appearing in extra fields. It is totally ignoring Title, Description and Full Description.
Copy and paste the link into the browser window and hit enter before you click the link and everything is fine, afterwards it's not. Somewhere X-Cart is caching that I don't want to search the title when actually I do!
I have tried a link to the X-Cart Demo where the substring is 'ring' and that works absolutely fine.
NOTE: search.php and include/search.php have never been changed from the X-Cart originals.
So what am I missing? - any help appreciated!